Upcoming Events
"Ancestors in My Feet"
Ava LaVonne Vinesett
Saturday, April 19th at 7:00 PM
Premieres as part of Duke Dance Program's ChoreoLab 2025
Rubenstein Arts Center, 2020 Campus Drive
Durham, NC 27705
Outdoor area behind RAC
In 1844, 114 enslaved people were forced to trek by foot, from Stagville to Alabama. How do we challenge historical silences embedded in public spaces? And as we are also concerned with moving beyond historical recovery to connect personal memory with broader historical absences--erased stories of the fullness and potential of life for enslaved, Stagville laborers—we hope to illuminate how love, joy , family, belonging, identifying your people, are also a part of the historical narrative that may lead to a reinscription of forgotten stories into the landscape of memory.
https://danceprogram.duke.edu/choreolab-2025
Juneteenth 2025 Open Studio at Historic Stagville
Meet the Indigo Yard Gals artist team at Stagville's Great Barn for an open studio day. Drop in to help prepare a series of “ancestral blueprints,” an ongoing series of cyanotype fabric art pieces. Join the artists in developing cyanotype fabric prints inspired by Stagville's history and memory. Cyanotype is an early form of print made without a camera, using paper treated with iron salts and sunlight to create stunning blue and white prints. The collective art created at this Open Studio will be used in a upcoming 2025 program at Stagville.